After Court Ruling, Democrats May Get To Kill Trump's White House Ballroom

By Jason Easley | March 31, 2026
The East Wing of the White House is gone. Construction was set to begin in two weeks, but then something happened in the lawsuit involving Trump’s construction of a ballroom at the White House.PoliticusUSA’s news and opinions are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.Subscribe nowThe preservationists who are suing Trump won. Not only did the judge block construction…Read More

American Jewish Organizations Are Making a Dangerous Mistake

By Aaron Regunberg | March 31, 2026
Growing up as a typical American Jew, I had it drilled into my head from a very young age that a strong Israel was a necessary condition for my safety. America was our home, sure, but as the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, I knew the history—at any moment our security could be shattered. Only the guaranteed protection of a…Read More

Trump’s DOJ Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

By Ken B. Morales, David Armstrong / ProPublica | March 31, 2026
This story was originally published by ProPublica.In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed U.S. attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace.The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including…Read More

DeSantis Signs Bill to Rename Florida Airport After Trump

By Zoe Engels | March 31, 2026
AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) quietly signed a bill on Monday to rename Palm Beach International Airport as the President Donald J. Trump International Airport. On Feb. 13, 2026, President Donald Trump‘s family business filed a trademark application for the name of the airport, which lies in close proximity to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club. In the trademark, the…Read More

Is Mills or Platner the "working class candidate"?

By Carl Beijer | March 31, 2026
Lakshya Jain, in The Argument:Despite his reputation as a working-class whisperer, Platner is actually doing far better with upscale Democratic whites than with non-college Democrats. Each primary poll with regional breakdowns has shown a common theme: Mills does far better among the blue-collar Democrats in the rural north of the state, while Platner cleans up with wealthy, coastal liberals who…Read More

The crisis hiding in plain sight this Women’s History Month

By Lauren Kostich | March 30, 2026
A letter to the Democracy Alliance community from president Pamela Shifman Dear Partners: Women’s History Month has always been a chance to remember the women whose brilliance and leadership have made our country stronger. But this year especially, it is crying out for so much more: an unvarnished truth about what is happening to women right now. Along with the…Read More

We Don’t Have to Accept Childhood Poverty

By Miles Kirkpatrick | March 30, 2026
Child poverty is a stain on our pride as a state and a nation. Children are not workers. They are not responsible for their own economic wellbeing. Yet their early years are highly determinative of their future success in life. Childhood poverty impacts brain development and school readiness. Setbacks in both create lifelong reverberations. Fighting… The post We Don’t Have…Read More

Zionism and ressentiment

By Carl Beijer | March 29, 2026
Thursday night FBI agents arrested militant Zionist Alexander Heifler as he prepared to attack Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani, the Guardian reports. In the wake of the arrest, Mayor Zohran Mamdani made the statement above on Twitter, condemning the plot and pledging to protect peaceful activists in his city.Even as I read the response above, however — and the hundreds of…Read More